Thinophilus indigenus Becker, 1902

Thinophilus indigenus Becker, 1902 View in CoL

( Figure 5A View Figure 5 )

Specimens examined

1♂, Asir, Karatha, Al-Ethrebany Fruit Farm , 6–27 .v .2014, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( CERS); 1♂, Asir, Maraba, Al-Hudaithy Fruit Farm , 1 .ii .2012 Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( CERS); 1♀, Jazan, Abu Aresh, Al-Mahdag Village , 4 .iii .2013, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (CERS).

Distribution

This is the first record from Saudi Arabia. The species was described from Egypt ( Cairo, Assiut, Assuan, Fayûm, Luxor and Suez) and further recorded from the Palaearctic ( Algeria, Iran, Israel, Mongolia and Turkey), Afrotropical ( Angola, Benin, Cape Verde Islands, Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Angola, Nigeria, Benin, Ghana, Tanzania, Namibia, Nigeria, Madagascar, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Yemen) and Oriental regions (Borneo, China ( Taiwan), India, Malaya, Nepal and Philippines) ( Grichanov 2017a, 2018).

Remarks. This species is known to inhabit the freshwater marshes and streams ( Grootaert and Evenhuis 1997).